Oct 8, 2019, 2:43 PM (core), (uncomfortable truth)
—“Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes. “—Epictetus.
This advice is helpful but obscures the underlying strategy of every single religion: do not fight for status signals unless you have the mental, emotional, physical ability, allies, and resources to obtain victory in the fight for upper middle, or upper class status. Never fight the war of all-against-all we call status competition unless you have little chance of failure. It generates few winners and everyone else loses. The same for rule of law vs the false dichotomy of capitalism and socialism both of which create wars of all against all. Every religion attempts to achieve mindfulness – escape from signal competition differently, and all do so destructively. Some philosophies seek to provide mindfulness with Agency: Truth in the form of math, science, economics, and rule of law. But Agency again is for those with mental, emotional, physical, familial, social, economic, political or military ability and resources. Some Philosophies seek to achieve mindfulness by limiting agency to one’s abilities: The stoic method of self authoring, and epicurean thought. Some pseudoscientific philosophies like Buddhism seek to achieve mindfulness by forgoing agency in the world, and instead developing it in yourself – to tolerate the status competition and all other difficulties in the world. Most supernatural philosophies – those we rightly call religion – seek to achieve mindfulness by denying status competition, producing an imaginary equality instead of an existential status competition, pretense of oppression rather than incompetence, or promising a future world. So whether High Agency Truth, Limited Agency Self Improvement, Lower Agency Self Discipline, or lowest Agency Self Sedation with falsehood, we seek the means of mindfulness that suits our agency – ability and resources in the soft competition between superpredators: cooperation. There is only one ‘bad’ method of mindfulness, and that is supernatural religion – that while cheap to indoctrinate, produces the horrors upon the world of judaism, christianity and islam – the enemies of mankind. While Science (Masculine), Epicuriean (neutral) and Buddhist (feminine), Chinese and Japanese and Pre-Christian Ritual and Ancestor Worship, are all constructive. While only europeans could invent truth, and arguably only the the pre-communist Chinese produced wisdom, the indians have produced harmony by means I have barely come to understand – largely because their massive continent, like australia or england is effectively an island. We can teach mindfulness in the stoic method, with epicurean goals as the majority means of training the human mind to focus on the actionable. We can teach science in the european (english) method, with transcendence of man by the production of agency as a goal, and leave open the possibility for all to use it as they see fit. We can teach intertemporal debt transfer between the generations by ancestor worship, nature worship, and hero worship, and we can celebrate nature, ancestors, and heroes together as polities, tribes, nations, races (Species) and Mankind. But we must end the semitic dark age of sedation by ignorance and deceit, that has not only brought us the current conflict, but the semitic dark ages, and the 1B premodern deaths, and the 100M current deaths. This cannot be achieved without institutional means of gradually reforming christianity as we have gradually reformed it for over a thousand years, and by outlawing all other supernatural religions, and confining semitic religion to Semitia until it has exhausted itself because of lack of prey to consume by deceit, ignorance, dysgenia and destruction. This is antithetical to the christians who are still under the addiction of the falsehoods of semitic abrahamic deceit. My job is law. And truth under the law. And these are statement so truth. And truth s only necessary because we desire what is false, despite the vast returns on truth. The truth like perfection cannot always be achieved. But the truth can reverse harms and prevent further harms. I am a man of agency. I seek mindfulness in Truth. Truth regardless of cost to me. And that is the secret to western civilization – and our dragging mankind out of ignorance, superstition, hard labor, poverty, starvation, suffering, disease, heat, cold, and the chaos of a nature void of gods, and all but hostile to life.